I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
I made a living out of singing Mexican music.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
Music I do just for me.
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
